[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Let's not think too Unix-specific. If we add such an API it should do
>> something on Windows too -- the app shouldn't have to test for the
>> presence of the API. (And thus the API probably shouldn't be called
>> fsync.)
> 
> In my initial proposal one and a half hour earlier I suggested 'sync()'
> as the name of the method and 'synced' as the name of the flag that
> forces a fsync() call during the close operation.

Maybe it would make more sense for "synced" to force fsync() on each 
flush, not only on close.  I'm not sure how useful it is, but that's 
what "synced" would imply to me.  Maybe it would be best to avoid having 
such a variable, and expose a close_sync() method instead?